[js1138]

Progress, indeed. For some time I've been predicting that the creationists will yield on speciation, but coin some term (e.g. "mesoevolution") to distinguish it from "macroevolution", which they will still decry.

This has already happened. The AIG folks are already talking about "kinds" as opposed to species, and admitting that there had to be some rapid speciation after Noah.

But no one has seen a squirrel evolve into a toaster. Or a raven into a writing desk.

[Physicist]

Or a raven into a writing desk.

Aha, the Lord has delivered them unto our hands. Evolution is demanded in this case: the presence of inky quills proves descent from a common ancestor.

[Gumlegs]

But no one has seen a squirrel evolve into a toaster. Or a raven into a writing desk.

No one ever said a raven turned into a writing desk. The question is "Why is a raven like a writing desk."

Perhaps it's for the same reason that fruit flies like a banana, but time flies like an arrow.